I just hope nvidia builds wayland support into their proprietary drivers. I mean if nvidia chooses not to support nouveau as their main DRI drivers, thats fine. However the least they can do is make sure they do as much as they can to invest in Linux moving forward and not force users (and app developers) to make painful decisions regarding whether they should use the proprietary drivers or nouveau.
For example if nvidia decides to focus and invest all their effort solely into mir and unity support for their closed drivers, thus giving everybody who backs wayland the shaft in the process, its going to end up being a major problem for developers like myself. Philosophically and pragmatically.
Well, as someone who should understand the value of free software, it is kind of your fault for buying a part from a company who has never supported foss before, and this move is quite a change of pace from them.
If they pull an AMD, except they do it right (ie, just depreciate the proprietary driver for enterprise compute usage and focus entirely on making gallium great) they have my business forever.
I'm thinking of getting a tegra note next month, on the pretense that at least Nvidia provides open source Tegra drivers through a 3rd party so that the platform is hackable. The new Nexus 7 is a disgrace since smart people have to waste their time reverse engineering the gpu in the Snapdragon because Qualcomm is being a dick.
For example if nvidia decides to focus and invest all their effort solely into mir and unity support for their closed drivers, thus giving everybody who backs wayland the shaft in the process, its going to end up being a major problem for developers like myself. Philosophically and pragmatically.